14th Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment was a Reconstruction-era amendment to the US Constitution passed on 9 July 1868, guaranteeing equal protection of the laws and citizenship rights for people of all kinds. The amendment was passed with ths specific goal of extending common law to protect African-Americans, and the amendment was invoked during the passage of Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, and Obergefell v. Hodges.